Canopus in Argos Book 1-5 – Doris Lessing Free Audiobook

Written by Doris Lessing
Format: MP3
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Unabridged

I Suspect Doris Lessing is the only Sci-Fi author with a Nobel Prize in literature.
Must also admit I of course knew of Doris Lessing but HAD NO IDEA she had written a Sci-Fi Pentalogy… well really ANY Sci-Fi books.

An interesting series and a bit “of the beaten track” now when a lot of Sci-Fi published has become “industrialized”
Meaning 6-10 books/ year and author, according to a “formula”, don’t take me wrong, I enjoy that as well.
But a person do need variety, “A Palate Cleanser”

The Canopus in Argos is a sequence of five science fiction novels which portray a number of societies at different stages of development, over a great period of time.
The focus is on accelerated evolution being aided by advanced species for less advanced species and societies.

The novels take place in the same future history, but do not relate a continuous storyline.
Each book covers unrelated events, with the exception of Shikasta and The Sirian Experiments, which tell the story of accelerated evolution on Earth through the eyes of Canopeans and Sirians, respectively.

#1 Shikasta
A secret history of Earth from the perspective of the advanced Canopus civilisation that is thinking in eons rather than centuries.
The history spans from the very beginning of life into a future World War Three.
It includes the trial of all Europeans for the crimes of colonialism.

#2 The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
Depicts the influence of unknown higher powers on interactions between a series of civilizational “zones” of varying degrees of advancement that encircle the planet Earth.
One zone is representative of an overtly feminine high civilisation initially coupled by royal marriage to a militant and male civilisation.
The novel culminates with the latter, male, civilisation allying with a tribal female realm again following directives from Canopus.

#3 The Sirian Experiments
Focuses, like Shikasta, on the history of Earth, but from the perspective of visitors from Sirius rather than Canopus.
The Sirians are depicted as a highly managed society, with fascist overtones, that attempts experiments on lesser civilisations while trying to mitigate the stagnation of their ruling class.
The story is told from the perspective of Ambien II, one of a peer group of five who rule Sirius.

#4 The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
The story of the civilisation on a planet that, because of interstellar “re-alignments”, is slowly facing extinction, and Canopus’s relationship with them.
The story is greatly influenced by Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic expedition, and is Lessing’s homage to it.

#5 The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
A story of Canopean agents on a less advanced planet; explores hazards of rhetoric and mirrors events in revolutionary societies such as Communist Russia.

The five books have also appeared compiled in a single volume entitled Canopus in Argos: Archives

Description/summary of books are in text files in respective folder (to much to post here)

Series/Books in the torrent:

Canopus in Argos:
#1 Shikasta
#2 The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five
#3 The Sirian Experiments
#4 The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
#5 The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire